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Never say, 'I cannot do it".
From now on, you should not say, 'the obstinacy does not go away." Because when I ask people how they are doing, they tell me, 'Sir, I know everything, but I am not able to do it.' What kind of people are you? You have turned the Self to this? Inspite of my telling you that the Atma can become whatever you imagine it to be, you still make statements such as 'I know everything but I cannot do it. Is that what you are telling me? Then the Atma will become just like that; it will become crippled. You should never say, 'I know all that, but I cannot do it.' Especially, you should never say, 'I cannot do it.' When I have a fever and someone asks, 'Are you running a fever?" I tell them, 'Yes, I know that A. M. Patel has a fever.' If I say, 'I have a fever' then it becomes attached to me. You immediately become whatever you envision kalpey. Therefore, I do not say any such things.
The main nature swabahv of the Self is that one becomes whatever one envisions. If you say 'I am God', then you become like a God, and if you say, 'I am worthless', then you will become worthless. You become that the moment you say it. When you say, I should become a God, then at that moment you do become a God, but then you will ask, 'What should I do now?" So you do not know it well and hence you revert to what you were before, stupid! Should you not learn how? Should you not know what you have to do after having attaining the Self? Otherwise, you will revert to what you were before. The Self becomes what it envisions chintavan and because it is so, it will continue to take on countless different forms and the change from one to the other, of whatever is envisioned. The one who is envisioning is not doing it independently. The envisioning is influenced by the pressure of surrounding and prevailing circumstances.
The knowledge guides one's conduct
Questioner: So what is the root cause of obstinacy?
Dadasdhri: The ego.
Questioner: But is it not the effect of past life's causes?